All those who work in public consultation and engagement know the value and importance of public service. Our work is oriented around it, and our commitment demonstrated by our diligent discharging of our duties to ensure that the public are heard and can play a role in the governance of the state. We know that […]
An open message from tCI on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II Read More »
The ongoing energy crisis has sent bills skyrocketing, and in one of her first acts as Prime Minister, Liz Truss has today announced her support package in the House of Commons designed to freeze the household energy cap in place for the next two years. The plan is big, and not likely to be uncontroversial.
Fracking’s back! But will any actually happen or will consultation put a stop to it? Read More »
At times of economic crisis such as, for example, the one in which we live, one of the favourite things for journalists to do is to dredge up from the mists of the Office for National Statistics how much the prices of common household goods will increase. You’ll have seen it time and time again
A disastrous case (for the claimants) which goes back to the basics of consultation law Read More »
At the time of writing, Liz Truss has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for about twenty minutes. So we thought it was high time we wrote to her to lay some cards on the table and try to help her get a good start on the massive pile of issues already in her
Dear Ms Truss… an open letter to the new PM Read More »
Article by Traverse The same broad consultation principles apply across all sectors, on that we can all agree (alongside Stephen Sedley QC, who coined those Gunning Principles in 1985). But if we take a closer look at consultations in infrastructure and health and care, significant differences quickly emerge. With experience of working on a diverse
Guest Article: All consultation is the same, isn’t it? Read More »
Though I am not much of a sportsman (I’m far too introverted for that), one of the sports that I do vaguely follow at the national level is that bastion of Englishness, cricket. For the fan of English cricket, the last few years have been less than satisfying (barring the odd outlier), and in an
Hitting for six- using consultation to rectify England’s cricketing woes Read More »
Our cousins over the pond have many funny ideas. They play cricket weirdly in some sort of square formation. They prefer drinking hot drinks made from beans, of all things, instead of dry leaves like normal people. And they set some unusual Presidents… or should that be precedents? The latest example of cross-continental strangeness comes
What a load of rubbish- or is it? Read More »
This week, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Sir Mark Lowcock, gave a speech in Washington DC in which he stated that the international aid system struggles because it does not listen to those who need the aid it supplies. Too often, he said, a top-down approach is used where
The challenges and benefits of consultation and engagement in international aid Read More »
Twice in the past week, my attention has been drawn by similar issues. The first came in a tweet we received asking about the importance of consultees being able to understand the information being presented to them in a consultation, and the second in this article from the Guardian. In the Guardian article, the former
“But I don’t understand!”- The importance of comprehension in consultation Read More »
On a fundamental level, consultation is about the acquiring of sufficient information for a decision-maker to be able to make a good decision. It constitutes a clear duty, whether founded on statute, or in common law, for those in charge to reach out to their communities and gather information that can then be analysed and
(Tameside) Inquiring minds- the fundamentals of consultation Read More »
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